On 09/13/2010 09:33 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:>>>> Does it in fact still build with 3.4? I seem to recall some talk about>> pushing the minimum version to 4.x for x86, although I can't remember>> where..> > I'm still building kernels with gcc 3.4.3 (for the ARMs which don't> require a later compiler) or gcc 4.3.2+patches for those which do.> > ARM gcc 3.4.3 is certainly noticably faster than gcc 4.3.2 even on> x86 - and as long as ARM gcc 3.4.3 works, and there's not great pain> in allowing it to build the arch-independent stuff, I see no reason> to deny it across the entire kernel build.> > I think we should have a minimum compiler version for the generic> kernel, and individual minimum compiler versions for the architectures,> so that arches can specify a higher minimum compiler version if they> have specific problems there.

Yes, I don't think anyone has proposed bumping past 3.4 for the generickernel at this time.